The average price of a best-selling ebook spiked this week up to $8.92 after spending most of 2013 hovering in the $7.00 to $8.00 range. In fact, it’s the highest observed average for the list in all of 2013. Last week, …
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Ebook Best-Sellers $10 and Above Week Ending 6-9-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $0.00 to $2.99 Week Ending 6-9-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $3.00 to $7.99 Week Ending 6-9-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $8.00 to $9.99 Week Ending 6-9-13
Avg. Ebook Best-Seller Price Spikes as Big Publishers Crowd Out Indie Hits
DOJ Has Huge Impact on Best-Seller Pricing
Little of consequence is happening in the next two weeks in the publishing world compared with the ebook price-fixing trial that recently started in lower Manhattan. Nonetheless, books keep coming out, getting sold and turning into best-sellers. This week, we take a look at the DOJ’s effect on ebook best-seller pricing.
Ebook Best-Sellers $8.00 to $9.99 Week Ending 6-2-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $10 and Above Week Ending 6-2-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $3.00 to $7.99 Week Ending 6-2-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $0.00 to $2.99 Week Ending 6-2-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $10 and Above Week Ending 5-26-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $8.00 to $9.99 Week Ending 5-26-13
Top-25 Best-Selling Ebooks: Average Price for Ebook Best-Seller Dips Below $7.00 Again
Take a look at the top-ten best-selling ebooks this week. Notice something? Many of them are priced above $10; only one is self-published; and the others are published by big-six publishers. It may seem like things are returning back to “normal” — if anything about the past several years of the book business can be considered normal. But dig deeper: It’s complicated.
Ebook Best-Sellers $3.00 to $7.99 Week Ending 5-26-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $0.00 to $2.99 Week Ending 5-26-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $3.00 to $7.99 Week Ending 5-19-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $0.00 to $2.99 Week Ending 5-19-13
Ebook Best-Sellers $8.00 to $9.99 Week Ending 5-19-13
Big-Six Publishers Take Top of Best-Seller List as Ebook Prices Inch Down
A high-priced, new-release is again atop the ebook best-seller list. Dan Brown’s Inferno (Random House), a new release from the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, is selling more ebooks than any other title at $14.99, competing with $0.99 self-published ebooks and $4.99 classics. While the No. 1 ebook on the best-seller list fits a familiar narrative when it comes to how book sales have been until very recently, the rest of the list follows a new paradigm.
